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Friday Roundup: White Blood Cells Curing Leukemia, a River on Titan, and Zombies in Nature

The best science stories across the web this week:

Researchers have developed a method for detecting psychological illness using brain scans. They used a machine learning algorithm to detect patterns in the shapes of “healthy” brains and brains suffering from various mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and schizophrenia.

The IPCC’s predictions about global warming in 1990 have been independently verified to have come true with staggering accuracy. As predicted, global temperatures rose 0.55 degrees Celsius above the natural baseline, after fluctuations due to solar radiation etc. were taken into account.